Japan Flora: Delicate evergreen herb with very slender, filiform, creeping stems often thinly white, recurved-puberulent; leaf-blades thin, membranous, reniform- orbicular, with an open sinus at base, 3-10 mm. in diameter, glabrous or short-pubcrulent on the nerves above, shallowly (on upper 1/5-1/3) 5- to 7-lobcd, the lobes truncate-rounded at apex, with 3-5 obscure teeth, the petioles 5-15 mm. long, sparsely white-puberulent, the stipules about 1 mm. wide; peduncles 5-20 mm. long, very slender, the pedicels obsolete or very short; fruit very small, about 0.8 mm. long, usually pale green, the styles short, slender. July-Sept.